Pokemon trainers take out their pokemon all the time, so why is Miss Complimentary so shocked that Jared let the Gengar out of the pokeball? I mean, Mister Fish is even RIGHT THERE, outside of HIS pokeball…

And is the Gengar running away some sort of in-joke? I thought at first it was a reference to their in-game descriptions, but the closest any of the games gets to this is the notion that wild Gengar will sometime run past people in the street at night, pretending to be their shadows.

Is it that Jared doesn’t have any Gym Badges, and therefor “traded” pokemon like this Gengar have a chance to disobey him? Or is it just that the Gengar takes one look at Jared and thinks, “Nope!” and just nope-nope-nopes away at full speed?

Aha! I hadn’t noticed that Jared broke the ball. I guess that means that his Gengar is free now, yeah? And that it’s gonna “nope” on outta here?

Shame, really, I was excited and looking forward to all the wacky hijinks that would ensue with Jared having another Pokémon: Gengar would pull pranks on Commander and the other men in the office, Mr. Fish would get jealous of all the attention Mr. Gengar would receive, and in the end, Jared would be taught an important lesson by Commander.

Jared – like any good trainer – only uses pokes with loyalty. None of that “It ignored commands” bullshit.
Besides, Gengar’s are hella creepy. All they want is to slip into your shadows and devour your life force, which is a sometimes food.

Some of us like creepy, life-draining minions… Though that does make loyalty all the more important.
Gengar is one of my favorite Pokèmon, though. Certainly my favorite Ghost-type chain – I do prefer Haunter a little.

Entrusting creatures that devour souls, set fires, or warp actual space and time to small children is what proves to me that everyone in the Pokemon universe is either a flaming idiot, or rampant supergeniuses from birth (like Time Lords or something).

actually female crocodiles raised in captivity are very protective of those who are nice to them and their owners. the reason is that they feel like the owners are their young and you don’t want to mess with a momma croc

Ah I see. He just cracked open the pokeball and threw it away. Makes sense since he never kept Mr Fish inside a pokeball even as a Magikarp, and knows next to nothing about how Pokemon work, treating them as animals instead of fantastic creatures.

I got my shiny, ironically, the same thing happened to me like Jared. I got the promotional card and left it at a bus stop. I got another one but to this day I still wonder about the Gengar that got away…

Alas, there is no Gamestop in exsistance where I live, so no chance of a Gengar for me. (A friend of mine has a whole bunch legitahacked Pokemon so I’ll see if I can bum a few off him.) But I don’t even care about Gengar. I want Shiny Metagross.

That’s too bad, because based on what I know of the character, I would imagine your art and writing style to be a great fit for her, with the tone of her games and her personality being able to make a seamless translation to this comic. But I can appreciate/understand not going anywhere near an idea due to being turned off by some truly toxic trolls.

Now that I’m sparked into thinking about it, does the agency have a separate branch/office for female characters? There are admittedly a lot fewer badass girls in video games than guys, but they exist and might have similar problems. Or are they generally well-adjusted enough to not need re-socialization?

Whoa…! The colors coming from the Pokéball are totally cosmic (º□º) (♥□♥)

Like, the Gengar isn’t that shiny, but this gives me a new perspective on the Pokéball. They can shrink down any Pokémon, and keep them contained without having to worry about mass or weight. I bet they’re extra-dimensional, and are bigger on the inside!

Funny you should say that, because a recent musing I came across was that all pokemon protagonists from the core games are just the same timelord, and that he/she dies from whatever just so the journey will never end. I should actually align this with other pokemon conspiracy theories and see how the tapestry looks. ^U^

So? Time Lords can meet themselves, especially past regenerations. Their past selves just forget about it until they experience it again. At least, so says the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game’s sourcebook on Time Lords (and the series doesn’t seem to contradict it, soo..)

Shiny Gengar is one of the most boring shinies, it’s just a slightly less saturated normal Gengar. You can barely tell it’s shiny unless it Megaevolves, because shiny Mega Gengar is white and blue instead of purple and red.

I’d expect no different from Jared and his poke-shenanigans. Plus who needs something called a shiny (that doesn’t even glitter at that…) when you have a massive gyarados who eats all who dare oppose you?

I just now got the fact that event pokemon have 0 EVs therefore they aren’t trained at all. So when Jarred says it’s not well trained it’s true. I don’t know if that was the intended joke but it is like a little commentary on how these pokemon are leveled up to a battle-abel level but are still useless in a battle.